It jobs
are now on high demand. However, because the term ”IT jobs” is very general which relates so many different occupations.
To better picture the jobs future prospective, it is important to look
specifically at the job you are interested in and be updated. Here is some
information that may be useful for you.
Recent
IT employment patterns have varied by occupation. This variation is a result of
several factors, including demand for certain IT services, increasing
efficiency in particular fields, and different susceptibilities to offshoring.
For example, employment of database administrators, computer and information
systems managers, and computer software engineers all grew by 22 percent or
more between 2001 and 2007.
Computer
scientists and systems analysts, network and computer systems administrators,
and network and data communications analysts also saw employment growth, with
increases between 8 and 16 percent over the same period. Employment in some
occupations did fall, however. Computer programmers and computer support
specialists, for example, both saw job losses of more than 6 percent. These two
occupations are more susceptible to offshoring than other IT occupations,
according to BLS, because their tasks are routine, can be done by telephone or
over the Internet, require little interaction with other types of workers, and
require little familiarity with the cultural practices of customers.
Although
offshoring may have contributed to job losses in those occupations, it is
likely that other factors also played a part in their employment declines. For
example, some programming and support functions that were previously performed
by IT workers have been automated. This automation has lowered demand for
workers in these occupations, resulting in job losses. Apart from those two
occupations, offshoring’s impact on technology jobs has probably been limited.
A report by the Association for Computing Machinery states that in previous
years, IT jobs in which workers need comparatively lower levels of skill—such
as programmers and support specialists—were the primary focus of offshoring
efforts; meanwhile, other occupations that require higher level skills were
largely unaffected. Furthermore, the same factors that allow U.S. firms to move
work to other countries allow foreign businesses to hire workers in the United
States, thus creating jobs.
Source:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2009/spring/art04.pdf
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